Submitted by Jimmy Oliphant


The earliest recorded date of burial is for the twin daughers of William Johnson & Mary Douglas Blocker who where born in April of 1838 and died as infants.  Other burials likely preceded this date as there are numerous grave sites without stones.  The latest recorded burial is that of Rebecca Brickell Hinton, buried in 1924.  Graves for seven members of the Blocker family were covered with a concrete slab in 1965 and identified with bronze name plaques.  About 12 graves have stones with legible names, etc., and an equal number of stones are illegible.

William Johnson Blocker & wife Mary Douglas Butler Blocker married in Alabama in 1834 and arrieved in Harrison County sometime in 1841.  His name is on the Tax Role for that year for the first time.  He was originally from South Carolina and Mary was a native of Virginia.  His property extended from just north of the cemetery southward for several miles toward Jonesville.  Jesse Blocker Jr, a brother of William Johnson Blocker, also lived in the area and was buried there in 1844.  The land on which the cemetery lies is believed to be that purchased from William Johnson Blcoker and his wife Mary by Levin Perry on November 6, 1856 and filed on February 14, 1857.  This is found in Harrison County Texas Deed Book P, page 395.

Levin Perry and his brother Joshua Perry with wife Octavia Green Hinton Perry arrived in Texas about 1837.  They, along with their cousins Josiah Dickson Perry and Dr Harwood Pope Perry, purchased land from the Blockers and built homes for their families.  Levin and Joshua lived near the cemetery, and with their families are likely buried there in the unmarked graves.  However, Octavia Perry, after the death of her husband Joshua, married Thomas Jefferson Coleman and their graves are identified.

William Rosser Hinton II, Octavia Green Perry's brother, came to Harrison County about 1855.  He married Rebecca Brickell Haywood at the Levin Perry home on December 3, 1856.  His brother, Albert P Hinton, married Mary Simms Garrott and they, along with several of their children, are buried there.

John Normente Saunders, an early pioneer emigrant to Texas, bought the property from Levin Perry heirs and it is now owned by his heirs.

The Levin Perry Cemetery, like other remote, out of the way cemeteries, is reserved under Texas law, Chapter 711.941 Health and Safety Code, for the perpetual use of the families having members buried there.